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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
The ALICE Physics Week will be held in hybrid mode (in person at CERN as well as online).
For those at CERN, you are welcome to join in person in the Main Auditorium.
- Detector Seminar, Friday 24 Sep 2021, 11:00: "ALICE ITS3 – a next generation vertex detector based on bent, wafer-scale CMOS sensors" by Magnus Mager (CERN)
- Machine learning in high energy physics a conversation over ice cream (5 October 2021, 16:00): The event is organized jointly by the early-career representatives of ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb. It is open to all juniors and is designed to help junior scientists become aware and involved in topics beyond their current work.The program will consist of 4 talks on machine learning topics focusing on applications in high energy physics.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Calls for nomination for the Collaboration Board Chair: nominations should be sent to ALICE-CB-Chair-Nominations-2021@cern.ch before 30 September 2021 (Thursday).
- A new FAQ category has been included in the ALICE Secretariat webpage which gives information on many of the Administrative processes.
- CERN is currently COVID-19 LEVEL 2 – Yellow. (https://hse.cern/covid-19-information)
- Update on the COVID19 Guidelines: https://hse.cern/covid-19-information
Recent health measures: A reminder of the COVID-19 measures in place
Frequently Asked Questions: COVID FAQ page.
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<li>LHC Seminar, Tuesday 28 Sep 2021, 11:00: "<a
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href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1065146/">Recent results on
Higgs Boson pair production exploring boosted topologies from
CMS</a>" by Santeri Laurila (CERN).<br>
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</li>
<li>TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 28 Sep 2021, 14:00: "<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1071106/">Holography of
Information and Massive Islands</a>" by Suvrat Raju.<br>
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</li>
<li>TH Exceptional Seminar, Tuesday 28 Sep 2021, 16:00: "<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1079787/">Aspects of
Thermalized Radiation Reaction</a>" by Morgan H. Lynch
(Technion: Israel Institute of Technology).<br>
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</li>
<li>TH BSM Forum, Thursday 30 Sep 2021, 13:00: "<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1065441/">Covariant
Color-Kinematics Duality</a>" by Dr James Mangan<br>
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</li>
<li>TH Exceptional Seminar, Thursday 30 Sep 2021, 14:00: "<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1064380/">Understanding and
improving mental health at work</a>" by Katia Schenkel,
Sebastien Paul Tubau<br>
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</li>
<li>CERN Colloquium, Thursday 30 Sep 2021, 16:30: "<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1077061/">How will we do
mathematics in 2030?</a>" by Prof. Michael Douglas (Stony
Brook University)<br>
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</li>
</ul>Wearing of Proximeters is mandatory at CERN, even in level 2 - Yellow. - Self-testing at CERN: is for those coming on-site and exhibiting no symptoms. If you have symptoms, even mild ones, do not come on site, contact the COVID Helpline at +41 22 766 7777 to arrange for an RT-PCR test at the Proxilis medical laboratory in Meyrin.
e-learning module for self-testing is available here. Sign-up for a self-test using the Plamed tool.
There are 11 self-testing points at CERN, the list and map locations for them are available here.
- A COVID vaccination centre at CERN will be opening on the CERN site in building 693 on 27 September for anyone holding a CERN access card and either resident in France or a French national. To sign up for a vaccination at CERN, call the COVID Helpline at +41 22 766 7777. Full details will be made available shortly on the COVID-19 information webpages at https://hse.cern.
Vaccination is readily available in Geneva at several sites, including some without appointment: see the page here.
- Applying to convert a Foreign Vaccination Certificate into a French Covid Passe Sanitaire and Requesting a COVID certificate in Geneva: Follow the link here.
- The use of COVID passes: CERN has introduced the use of the certificate as of 13 September for public site visits, events in the Globe, and exhibitions. A COVID certificate is not required for professional access to the site.
- Measures in France: Since 8 September, the COVID certificate (pass sanitaire) has no longer been required to access shopping centres in departments where the incidence rate is below 200 per 100 000, and has been falling for at least seven days. Full details of the measures in France may be found here.
- Measures in Switzerland: As of Monday 13 September, a COVID certificate has been required to access indoor areas of restaurants, cultural and leisure facilities, and events held indoors. See the Council’s press release for full details are here.
- Travel:
- France updated its classification of countries as green, orange or red on 10 September: details are here.
- There are currently no countries requiring quarantine on arrival in Switzerland. See here for details.
For any information and support: contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 28 Sep 2021, 11:00: "Recent results on Higgs Boson pair production exploring boosted topologies from CMS" by Santeri Laurila (CERN).
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 28 Sep 2021, 14:00: "Holography of Information and Massive Islands" by Suvrat Raju.
- TH Exceptional Seminar, Tuesday 28 Sep 2021, 16:00: "Aspects of Thermalized Radiation Reaction" by Morgan H. Lynch (Technion: Israel Institute of Technology).
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 30 Sep 2021, 13:00: "Covariant Color-Kinematics Duality" by Dr James Mangan
- TH Exceptional Seminar, Thursday 30 Sep 2021, 14:00: "Understanding and improving mental health at work" by Katia Schenkel, Sebastien Paul Tubau
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 30 Sep 2021, 16:30: "How will we do mathematics in 2030?" by Prof. Michael Douglas (Stony Brook University)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here
New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications
PAPERS IN THE COLLABORATION REVIEW
New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications
NEWS FROM POINT 2
ALICE is in the global commissioning phase:
- Shift Booking:
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- ALICE shift booking is open. Please sign-up for shifts.
- We are missing DCS and SL/ECS blocks in September and October. We are entering extremely important phases for the pilot beam test preparations. Therefore, having DCS and SL/ECS shifters is crucial.
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- Now we are running ITS+TPC+TOF+MFT+MCH+MID in one partition and raw TF data verification ongoing.
- Detector performances are being optimized (noise, etc).
- ITS and MFT are progressing noise calibrations.
- MCH ST2 commissioning ongoing.
- Next week, we will integrate TRD and FIT and prepare for the TED shots.
- Now we are running ITS+TPC+TOF+MFT+MCH+MID in one partition and raw TF data verification ongoing.
LS2 Schedule:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Low-x 2021, La Biodola, Elba, Italy, 26 September - 1 October
- VERTEX 2021, Oxford, UK - online, 27-30 September
- ECT* ML for HEP, Trento, Italy, 27 September - 1 October
- Jets for 3D Imaging at the EIC, Stony Brook, US - hybrid, 27-29 September
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Blois2021, Blois, France, 17 - 22 October, abstract deadline 24 September
- RAPID2021, Jammu, India - online, 25-29 October, abstract deadline 30 September
- Latin American Symposium on HEP, Sao Paolo, Brazil - online, 8-12 November, abstract deadline 17 October
- International Workshop on HEP, Moscow, Russia - online, 8-12 November, abstract deadline 6 November
- Light Cone 2021, Jeju Island, Korea, 29 November - 4 December, abstract deadline 31 October
- Lepton Photon 2021 - hybrid, 10-14 January, abstract deadline 1 October
- VCI 2021, Vienna, Austria, 21-25 February, abstract deadline 3 October
SCHOOLS
- Baryons 2021 school, Sevilla, Spain, 19 October, registration deadline 18 October
OUTREACH NEWS
- COVID Level 2: CERN is gradually reopening to visitors. Details are in the CERN visits website.
- Virtual, VIP and press visits are already taking place regularly: indico link.
- ALICE underground visits: are now open to people having a valid CERN access card, with a limited number of visitors, and in respect of special COVID rules. The guidelines are documented here.
- ALICE Virtual Visits: are announced in the official CERN catalogue. A list of open virtual visits is announced in the Visits link.
ALICE needs volunteers for virtual as well as underground visits. Virtual visits require having 2 or 3 guides. If interested, please get in touch with alice-visits, or alice-outreach-virtual-visits
- ALICE LEGO Model has been designed by both high school and university students in Germany as part of a workshop series organised jointly by Christian Klein-Boesing, Marcus Mikorski and Sascha Mehlhase.
- CERN Alumni Second Collisions (1-3 October)
- Weekly activities open to everyone at CERN: from relaxing coffee meetings to High Intensity Training. CERN colleagues have put together a series of activities to help us stay connected in these challenging times.
DIVERSITY
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Title |
Institute |
Application deadline |
Electronics Engineer | University of Mainz | 17 Oct 2021 |
Tenure-track Assistant Professor | Ohio State University | 30 Nov 2021 |
Two 3-year postdoctoral positions in Experimental Hadron Physics | University of Glasgow | 28 Sep 2021 |
Assistant Professor in experimental elementary particle physics | The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL | 15 Nov 2021 |
Postdoctoral Fellow in ATLAS | Oklahoma State University | 1 Oct 2021 |
Post-Doctoral Fellow(s) in Particle Phenomenology and Applications of Machine Learning at Colliders | SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, India and Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa |
25 Sep 2021 |
Postdoctoral Research Associate | Wayne State University Contact: Prof. Claude A. Pruneau, |
31 Oct 2021 |
Research Associate / Assistant Professor (Research), non tenure-track | Wayne State University Contact: Prof. Sergei A. Voloshin |
15 Nov 2021 |
Postdoctoral fellowship in heavy-ion physics with LHCb | Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory, CNRS | 13 Oct 2021 |
DESY-Fellowships – experimental particle physics | DESY | 30 Sep 2021 |
Assistant Professor of Physics | University of Michigan | 1 Nov 2021 |
Rokos-Clarendon Associate Professor of Experimental Neutrino Physics | University of Oxford | 11 Oct 2021 |
Faculty Position in Experimental Elementary Particle Physics | The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL | 15 Nov 2021 |
Particle Physics Division Head | Fermilab | 30 Sep 2021 |
Postdoctoral fellowships | The Muon Radiography team of the center for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3) of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1 Oct 2021 |
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.